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Louis Tannen Magic Catalog 10
This will be my second post about Magic this season, and it's related in more than one way.I picked up this Louis Tannen Magic Catalog Number 10 at the same magician's estate sale where I found the...
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Hats Off to Halloween
 These 2 hats came from the Halloween collector estate sale. This first hat is large, standing 15" tall with an 8" diameter at the base (12" with fringe). It dates from around 1950. Manufacturer is...
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Garfield Out of Context (and Horrifying)
When I saw this puzzle at a garage sale, my mind immediately thought "Garfield is holding the severed head of John."Maybe it's me, but that's where my mind goes. It doesn't help that he's grasping...
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Witch Costume Will You Wear?
With Halloween days away, it's time to start seriously thinking about your costume. How about a Halloween witch?This witch's costume dates from the 1950's. It was a surprisingly cheap find at an...
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Mondays are to Die (cut) For - Beistle Scaredy Cat
Welcome to final "Mondays are to Die (cut) For". Boy, that went fast.This classic Beistle design is the "Scaredy Cat" and was another purchase at the Halloween collector estate sale. This one is a...
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The Heyer Cartoon and Idea Book - Halloween
I'm going to try squeezing in a few last minute items these last couple days. First up is the Heyer Cartoon and Idea Book. A little like the advertising slick's I found a few years ago, this book...
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Home Haunts 2023
Carrying on a tradition I started last year, I took some photos of home haunts I came across while out garage saling. I didn't see as many as last year, but I also didn't haunt the usual neighborhoods...
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Shaker Maker Hairy Bunch
Happy Halloween all!I can't believe how fast this season has gone. It's been a very busy October for me and I felt like I barely kept up on these posts, usually finding myself creating them in a rush...
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Deck the Halls with Bowels of Ghoulies
While my decorations don't change drastically from year to year, I like to swap things around and add things here and there. This year's mantel. I added some vintage cabinet photographs from a...
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Be Mine
I hope everyone's wearing their neck brace, because we're going from Halloween to a head-snapping Valentine's Day post. Somehow, Thanksgiving and Christmas was lost in the shuffle.  Truth is, I'm...
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Scholastic Memories
 I've written before of my fond memories of Scholastic Books and the two magical days in school: when the Scholastic Book Club order form would arrive and the day the books you ordered arrived.I...
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Pockets of Fun
Pardon me if my age shows while I switch into "kids these days" mode. It seems the sole source of entertainment for kids these days (see, I told you) are video games. Sure, they come in a variety of...
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Pirates of the Harried Being
You may have noticed a slight deluge of posts lately. Okay, maybe "deluge" is a bit strong. Let's say a slight swelling of posts. The reason is, I've been going through my blog drafts; those posts I...
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What was on TV February 27th through March 5th, 1982
This week's TV Guide is yet another example of that bothersome mailing label.  Sorry, Pamela Sue Martin. "'Humbug!' she yelled at the mayor of Los Angeles" and she still didn't get the role of...
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Bounty
I acquired a collection of family slides at an estate sale this past weekend. Many are "red border" Kodachrome 35mm slides which puts them at pre-1960. As it turns out, many were from the late 1940's...
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Occupied
This slide was simply titled "Latrine". Talk about closeness. I'm not sure that canvas wrap is really providing much privacy. I have nightmares about this (not this particular slide, mind you, just...
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Flower Power
There's something poetic about this slide. Something about the beauty of peacetime after the horrors of war. Anyway, we've gone from squatting in the latrine to squatting in some flowers.
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Sunday Morning Coffee
Okay, it's really Sunday afternoon, but I worked all night and went to bed at 8 a.m. this morning.This Farberware model 206 was a recent find, although I have several in this identical or near...
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National Donut Day is today. National Donut Day National Donut Day was started in 1938 by the Salvation Army to commemorate the volunteers who served donuts to soldiers during WW I. In honor of that,...
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A Girl and her Mule(?)
I recently acquired a large collection of vintage photographs from an estate sale. The photos date from the 1920's and 30's, so I'm assuming they were not taken by the person whose estate sale it was,...
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